No. 10. 



Editorial Notices. 



327 



THE FARMERS' CABIXET, 



AND 



AJ13RICAN HERD-BOOK. 



Philadelphia, Fifth Month, 1S43. 



1 C. Ommings, glue manufacturer of this city, in- 

 formed us a few days since, that both last year and the 

 year before, he sold several hundred tons of bones to 

 I be shipped to Hull, in England, for the purpose o: b ing 

 ; ground for manure. And this season, he assures us 

 i there will be at least 500 tons of the same article ship- 

 ped hence, for the same place. Why is it that bone 

 dust is so much more highly valued in England, than 

 by our own farmers? Is it owing to a difference of 

 climate, soil, or mode of application? or have our 



Is our last number we ventured the opinion, that the 

 use of marl, &c, was about to open a new era in 

 Southern agriculture. Much that we hear from that 

 section of our countrv confirms this sentiment. The .fanners not sufficiently tried the article, to appreciate 



President of the State Agricultural Society of South' 

 Carolina, in a circular which we find in the last num-| 

 ber of the Southern Agriculturist, remarks; "with a 

 genial climate, and a soil naturally fertile and admi- 

 rably adapted to many of the most valuable crops in 

 the world, the wealth of South Carolina might be im- 

 measurably increased, if her agricultural resources 

 were known. In their examination and develope- 

 ment, Mr. Ruffin is now engaged. His discoveries 

 have already far exceeded his anticipations. Exten- 

 sive beds of marl of unusual abundance and richness, 

 it is now evident, not only exist in the lower districts, 

 but there are satisfactory indications, that calcareousj 

 matter in some form, is generally diffused through the 



ts value. We believe the English apply it principally 

 to their root crops. 



"THE FARMER'S ENCYC LOP-EDIA 



AND 



DICTIONARY OF RURAL AFFAIRS: 

 Embracing all the recent discoveries in Agricultural 

 Chemistry, adapted to the comprehension of unscien- 

 tific readers^ by Ccthbert W. Johnson; enlarged, im- 

 proved and adapted to the United States, by a Practical 

 Fanner, assisted by numerous scientific gentlemen, is 

 now in course of publication by Carey & Hart, of this 

 city." 

 The fifth number of this work has appeared since 

 Slate." And in a recent letter from Edmund Ruffin. ' our , a=t and js an excellent one . It contains a fu |i 

 the agricultural surveyor of the State, to the President 'description of the mode of making capons. This is a 

 abovementioned, he expresses his opinion, that "mil-|| part of rural economy, towards which a good deal of 

 lions of dollars in value, of newly created agricultu-jj attentjon has | atterly been directed. The curious in 

 ral wealth, will accrue to the State within a few years sucn matt ers, will find all the instruction they may 

 after the commencement of the general use of calca- need U "e have also been particularly struck with the 

 reous manures." He says also.'-from my examii.a- extended articles on cattle , and the caterpillar. These, 

 tions already made, I feel authorised to assert that the with the hjgbly inte resting essay on bees, in the third 

 mail, or soft limestone formation of South Carolina. nurn ber, are of more value to the practical man. than 

 is more widely extended and abundant, more rich in i the cost of tbe wbole worb The style jn whicn it is 

 calcareous earth, and more generally accessible, and executed, really does credit to the enterprising pub- 

 that the proper application will be more profitable, jishers. 



compared with the necessary outlay, than of any other 



extensive region yet known." SHORT ADVERTISEMENTS, 



The subject matter of which, may correspond with the 



The Central New York Farmer, as we learn from agricultural character of this paper, will be inserted 

 the March number, has been adding to its Editorial [at the rate of one dollar for each insertion often lines 

 strength— and we trust, to its potentiality of useful- '! or less; and so in proportion for each additional line. 

 ness, as Dr. Johnson might say. by enlisting C. N. Be- |The money to be paid in advance. 



ment, Esq., of Albany, in its service. We congratu- j 



late the former editors upon this circumstance. ' The first number of the second volume of the Ame- 



"There is no monopoly in agriculture; no patent riean Agriculturist, comes to us in a very neat form 

 rights for the best method of cultivating crops;" says indeed. There is a decided improvement in the vig- 

 the new co-editor: "the field is broad and open to all. nette — it is now quite ornamental to the first page, 

 and the best requital we can make for distinguished We had long trembled for that pig, treading upon the 

 benefits resulting from an enlightened system of prac rake-tooth, with his nose under the scythe ! It is pub- 

 tice, is to tender to others a participation in the bene-Jished monthly in New York, at one dollar per annum, 

 fits which our better practice confers." He regards the and is ably edited by A. B. Allen. A great variety of 

 circulation of "agricultural journals in the light of the matter is judiciously thrown into this, as well as the 

 subsoil plough— they penetrate into the under crust'' preceding numbers, and it cannot fail to have an ex- 

 of the mind, and by stirring up and exciting the facul- tensive and beneficial influence upon the good cause 

 ties, set the farmers to thinking, and have thus been; for which it is labouring. 



instrumental in sending forth the spirit of improve-j 



ment over our land, from which vast benefits have re- We are in the receipt of the Southern Cultivator, 

 suited. " Farmers," says he— and we would like our published every fortnight at Augusta, Ga.. by J. W. 

 friends to continue to bear it in mind— "farmers want and W. S. Jones. It is devoted to the Agriculture of 

 plain facts conveyed in plain language; descriptions the South, and gives promise to be an able auxiliary 

 of processes, and statements of experiments, which, if in promoting the substantial interests of that section 

 followed, may lead to increased profits of labour." of our country. It has our hearty good wishes. 



